MPS Faculty Federica Brandizzi: DOE-BER grant seeks new imaging approaches to observe plant-microbe interactions

Michigan State University and the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, operated by Stanford University, are working to build new microscopes that allow scientists to peer into plant cells like never before.

Using a three-year, $507,264 grant from the Department of Energy Office (DOE) of Science’s Biological and Environmental Research (BER) program, MSU plant biologist Federica Brandizzi and her lab are collaborating with Stanford’s Soichi Wakatsuki, professor of photon science at the SLAC, professor of structural biology in the Stanford School of Medicine and the grant’s principal investigator, to create optical and X-ray multimodal-hybrid microscope systems for live imaging of plant stress responses and microbial interactions.

Read the full story in the MSU-DOE Plant Research Laboratory newsroom.